Missouri appears to have slowed work on
a high-tech computer program that would conduct a biometric analysis
of photos taken for state driver’s licenses and identification
cards.
The Associated Press has obtained an
email sent last week from the manager of Missouri’s driver’s
license bureau to employees at MorphoTrust USA telling the contractor
that work was to immediately stop on the photo validation project.
The email was sent shortly after a Senate committee approved a budget
plan that would eliminate funding for the contract.
The email was labeled “photo
validation project canceled.” But a spokeswoman for the state
Office of Administration says the MorphoTrust contract was not
canceled.
State budget director Linda Luebbering
said Tuesday the state doesn’t want to incur new costs while the
contract faces budgetary uncertainty.
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